America follows the Brits with sanctions against Mueller charged Russians…

British PM may has expelled several Russian diplomats in disopalying her displeasure in what apopaers to be Russian actions aginst former spy’s in from the cold living in the West….

In announcing her move, May said America and other Wetsren countries had her back….

We all kinda wondered if Trump would indeed be there for her since the guy appears to be cautious about pissing Russian President Putin off for what ever reason Trump seems to be afraid of….

This move comes as a surprise for some of us and a relief for PM May….

The move is mostly symbolic for America….And is actually about 2016 Russian interfereance with the Presidential election that Treump says didn NOT happen….

The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on 19 Russians for alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election, including 13 indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The penalties also include the first use of new powers that Congress passed last year to punish Moscow for election meddling. Those targets include officials working for the Russian military intelligence agency, GRU.

The Treasury Department says the GRU and Russia’s military both interfered in the American election and were “directly responsible” for the NotPetya cyberattack that hit businesses across Europe in June 2017….

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From Wednesday’s debate on the Prime Minister’s further statement on the Salisbury incident.

[The Speaker of the House of Commons is one of the oldest public offices in England going back to the first parliament in 1265 A.D. An earlier parliament met after the signing of Magna Carta in 1215. However, although the English like to call Westminster the Mother of Parliaments, which in one sense she is, she is not quite the oldest parliament still in existence, being younger than the still-functioning Icelandic Althing, founded in 930, or the Manx Tynwald, born in 979.]

Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)

I completely support everything the Prime Minister has said today. The truth is that under Putin the Russian Federation has managed to combine all the worst facets of communism and all ​the worst facets of rampant capitalism, all wrapped up inside a national security state that keeps its people poor and kills his political opponents. May I ask about the Russian ambassador? Since Alexander Yakovenko arrived, he has repeatedly lied to parliamentarians. He has tried to get Mr Speaker to stop debates on Russia happening in this House and he has tried to interfere in the internal elections of this House. Surely to God, it is time we now told him that we will order our affairs in this country, not him, and he can go home?

The Prime Minister

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that we will order our affairs in this country and we will not be told what to do by the Russian ambassador. I fully expect the House authorities to ensure that it is not possible for an external party to interfere in elections in this House. I would also say that it is a brave man who tries to tell the Speaker of the House of Commons what to do and to stand anything down.

Mr Speaker

I must say, for the avoidance of doubt, that he got absolutely nowhere with me. The House can be sure about that.